A new version of HWE ( v0.3.9 ) has been released (Download from my website). This new version includes bug fixes, code optimizations, and reimplemented map compression algorithms:

Fixed a bug in the map exporter dialog where closing the dialog with the window close button would export one or more maps into the previously chosen file format at the previously selected file location

I downloaded this yesterday, not knowing it was newer. It works well in Wine 1.8.2 stable, way better than ChaosEdit does that's for sure. Looks very clean too. One tiny suggestion I'd make is to add a tooltip message when you hover over the "Map View Options" and "Find & Replace" buttons on the top, I couldn't remember what the icon with the trees was until I clicked it.

edit: Hm I tried to save some maps in HWE and now they won't open in HWE or in-game. Probably just a screwy Wine thing - lol.
edit2: If I saved it with RLEW compression I was able to play it as MAPTEMP in the Beta version though, old format success!

I downloaded this yesterday, not knowing it was newer. It works well in Wine 1.8.2 stable, way better than ChaosEdit does that's for sure. Looks very clean too. One tiny suggestion I'd make is to add a tooltip message when you hover over the "Map View Options" and "Find & Replace" buttons on the top, I couldn't remember what the icon with the trees was until I clicked it.

edit: Hm I tried to save some maps in HWE and now they won't open in HWE or in-game. Probably just a screwy Wine thing - lol.
edit2: If I saved it with RLEW compression I was able to play it as MAPTEMP in the Beta version though, old format success!

Something is definitely broken in the map compression algorithms of the latest version. Version 0.3.8 is available again until I've fixed the problems.

I'm giving this editor a try since I have issues with MapEdit running in DOSBox and WDC seems to be dumping random junk into my maps.

One question though, I can't seem to figure out how to get a count of each item is in the map like you get with ALT-S in MapEdit. Also, your website says that you can flip or rotate items in the clipboard, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it. Thanks for any input on this!

One question though, I can't seem to figure out how to get a count of each item is in the map like you get with ALT-S in MapEdit.

HWE doesn't provide statistics for individual items, but that could be implemented in a new version.

vaultkeeper wrote:

Also, your website says that you can flip or rotate items in the clipboard, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it.

You can flip or rotate maps or copied map parts by opening the Map menu, hovering over Advanced and select the action you want to perform. If you want to flip or rotate a map from the clipboard, go to the clipboard manager and click Past into map (I should probably fix this typo ), then go to Map menu, hover over Advanced and select the action you want to perform. Now the copied map (part) is flipped or rotated and you can paste it into the mapping area. Just tell me if you need more details about this.

HWE also has a help file which can be accessed by opening the ? menu and choosing Help or by pressing F1. Granted, the help file doesn't explain the flipping or rotating feature in great detail, but provides the basics on how to use the editor.

Thanks for the heads up on rotating the copied part of the map! It worked.

For whatever reason the Help file doesn't work for me. I just get a blank screen when I try to load it.

I really like the editor for the most part. It's clean and simple and so far have not had any damage or oddities with my maps. If statistics for individual items could be implemented, I could use it exclusively.

What a minute ... this one will actually work in WINE? Now I definitely have to try it out soon.

Yes, it's definitely the best Windows map editor for this. The only issue I noticed so far is that the "Map Symbols" Editor (Ctrl+E) doesn't let me change the pixels, when I click inside the box on the right it just changes everything to black, but it does work in Windows 7. Also converting 60 maps to 128x128 hung a while with no progress bar (about 10 sec) but does eventually make it.

Actually, ChaosEdit *does* work in WINE, but you have to enable it in Fullscreen mode before it does anything besides crash. Something told me to try it again after changing the WINE settings.

Nice! I typed winecfg into the terminal, and in the "Graphics" tab checkmarked "Emulate a virtual desktop", then clicked on ChaosEdit in winefile, and it worked! Everything seems to be working including sounds and music! hahah. Thanks Tricob!

I tried to open WolfensteinIntensifies.wad here and it says "Expected WDC map file in the current WAD lump!". I guess it uses something else? I actually thought the WAD feature was for converting Doom maps into 64x64 or something until today.

Huh, I didn't knew WDC has any ability to handle WADs. My guess is that it only handles WADs that contain nothing but a single map file - like the WADs you need to put in the PK3 file if you're making a mapset in PK3 format. Meanwhile this mod's wad contains several map lumps in addition to things such as graphics, so I guess WDC wouldn't know which map to choose.

Huh, I didn't knew WDC has any ability to handle WADs. My guess is that it only handles WADs that contain nothing but a single map file - like the WADs you need to put in the PK3 file if you're making a mapset in PK3 format. Meanwhile this mod's wad contains several map lumps in addition to things such as graphics, so I guess WDC wouldn't know which map to choose.

As far as I'm aware it doesn't; last time I implemented it in an editor ECWolf could use a map where there was a single WDC exported map in a WAD.

A WAD file is the standard data container format in ECWolf. WAD files can normally contain new graphics, sounds, maps, and what have you. However, Wolfenstein 3D maps in WAD files must be exported in WDC file format. That's also the only connection to WDC, and no, WDC doesn't support WAD files.

The WAD handler in HWE is pretty simple and can only handle empty lumps and map lumps in a WAD file. So, if the WAD file contains any additional data, like new graphics, then HWE can't handle the WAD file. It's planned that HWE ignores unknown lumps/data in WAD files in a future release, but I won't add this in the old version of HWE anymore, because I'm already working on a completely new version of HWE. So, if you want to open WAD files in the old version of HWE, you've to remove all additional data from the WAD file first with a WAD editor like SLADE.

By the way, ECWolf supports multiple maps in a WAD file, if the WAD file is structured as follows:

They're not saved in 1.0's format, the 1.4 EXE opens them fine (which it shouldn't do if they are).

I noticed that the mapsets that don't open Level 1 correctly don't have a "TED5v1.0" string at the start of the GAMEMAPS, though I could not find any Dos editor that saves maps this way or any version of wolf3d that does not contain the string.

I just noticed that a few days ago, too. What a coincidence! I haven't had the time to take a closer look at it, but I would probably need to rewrite the code of this feature in order to fix the problem. To be honest, this feature doesn't seem to get used that often (Not even by me ), otherwise somebody would have reported this bug much earlier (I figured out that this bug exists since version 0.3.1, when the zoom feature was first introduced ), so I won't bother fixing it. Another reason for not fixing it, is that I'm fully focusing on the new HWE since the beginning of March.